This blog is a look at my life and activities as a quilter,quilt teacher,ex-pat and mother with an eye to the humor in our lives and our work.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Progress on the embroidered mystery quilt
I've made some progress on the embroidered mystery quilt. I finished sewing all the setting squares and put them up with the embroidered squares on my - rather clever I think - make shift design wall...I don't know what happened to the flannel I used to use (I think I cut it up for something) so I took a twin sized flannel flat sheet, folded it in half wrong side out and taped it to the wall.
When I designed the mystery quilt, it was with this layout.
If you squint, can you see the stars? It was a great layout for a mystery quilt with the surprise secondary pattern and the Redwork club participants really liked how their quilts came out. I didn't finish mine because that was just when I got sick with the CMV virus...in fact, I missed the last session and had to e-mail Barbie the layout. Well, I just couldn't resist moving squares around...
and I've decided that I'm actually going to use this layout instead. (Don't tell on me! :)
I have been quilting for 19 years, teaching for about 15 and enjoying every minute of it. We now live overseas and I love how quilting is now worldwide. I sometimes hand and sometimes machine quilt
4 comments:
The change is amazing, I like the second setting of the blocks even better than the first one with the stars.
Well I like both but it's YOUR quilt so you get to choose!
Good to hear you are back at the quilting I am still struggling!
I love the new layout. It showcases the embroidered squares better.
Beautiful blocks and both layouts are wonderful!
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